Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-11
CITY COUNCIL.
TIE BUSINESS TRANSACTED AL LAST
EVENINGS SESSION.
An Attempt to Amend the Appropriation
Ordinance Fails-OriinanCes
Adopted

Council was very slow in getting to-
gether at last evenings regular session,
there being but two members of the Sec
ond Branch in its chambers at 8 o'clock.
For the ensuing quarter of an hour the
outlook for a quorum was very blue, but
gradually the gentlemen struggled in, and
when the roll was called twenty members
responded AYE" After Clerk Bow
ers had wrestled with the minutes
for half an hour, he having something like
sixty pages in front of him, the transac-
ton of business was proceeded with. The
attendance of spectators was very light,
Notwithstanding there was a well-defiued
rumor afoat to the effect that most i'm
portant communication would be handed
in by the Board of Public Works.
FINANCIAL.
CITY Clerk Bowers read his regular finau-
cial report, showing a total balance OF
1926, O54. a2, divided as follows: Board OF
Public Works. $47, 1872 81; Fire, $40, BOG
92; Health, So, OBJ lG; Markets, 81, SOL 6;
Police, Sl4, 36l.57; City Prison, So, S6.O5;
Scales, $S50.47; Real Estate, Sl,3O6 w;
Cemeteries, $753.1l; salaries, s., OBS. 40;
contingencies, 81, 1921; compromise loan,
81, 200; loan of 1887, $1,000; loan OF 1881,
81. OO2. so: Water Board, $50, 81;
Gas Works, SOB, 5l9. 10; loan of 1855, SlS,-
500
The following bills were read and or
dered paid:
Police and Fire Commissioners:
On account of ire.......... ........St " 80. 49,,
on account of pOliCc......."... ~ H'-SlOt T.
Committee Bills:
CITY Prison 81
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LICENSES GRANTED.
Licenses were granted as follows:
Auctioneers-W. II. Halter and ]. c.
Hervey.
Coffee Houses-BOny Alhinger, No. 1873
Wood; Bernard McEntee, No. 1922 Main.
Wholesale and retail liquor-Meyer u
Radcliffe, No. & Twelfth.
ORDINANCES.
The Committee on Health submitted an
amendment to the present crematory ordi-
nance, requiring butchers to haul their
offal to the crematory to be burned.
Mr.. Caldwell raised the pOiut that the
ordinance was not in proper form. MIR.
Healy moved to refer the ordinance to the
Committee on Ordinances. Upon this
motion Mr.. Jaeger called attention TO the
purpose of the ordinance. The old
ordinance compelled groccrymen to
haul their refuse to the furnace,
while it did not COMPEL the butchers, who
had n great deal of refuse, to do the same
thing. The purpose Of the amendment
was to put the butchers and grOcerymen
upon an equality. The motion to refer
was lost, whereupon Mr.. Healy objected to
its further consideration and it went over.
Later this objection was withdrawn, and
the ordinance was again taken up. Mr..
Caldwell pointed out the discrepancy he
tween the title and the body of the Ordi-
nance, and moved to strike out all the
ordinance except the section sought TO he
amended. This was done, and the or
dinance was read a second and third time
and passed.
Mr.. Jaeger submitted an ordinance
amending the general appropriation ordl-
nance, so as to give the Board of Public
Works discretion in the expenditure of the
money remaining in their hands after the
completion of last years contracts Mr..
Cruise objected to the second reading of
the paper, and it went over.
Mr.. Mitchell offered I'M ordinance amend
ing section & OF the ordinance in relation 10
lookup and lookup keeper, so rs to in
clude the lookup Oh the base ball grounds.
Tho nrIiununn Wa road a first second and
third time and passed.